Jocelyn Benson and Winnie Brinks, Birds of a Feather

Lansing, MI – Today, Michigan Secretary of State and Democrat nominee for governor Jocelyn Benson announced her running mate: Senate Majority Leader Winnie Brinks, the policy architect of Michigan’s downfall under the Democrat trifecta. Serving in the Michigan Senate since 2019, Brinks spent years as a rubber stamp for Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s radical agenda until she finally had the power to contribute to Michigan’s destruction herself.

As Leader, she pushed through Whitmer’s radical Green New Deal, costing Michiganders $2,700 per year on average from the green energy mandates. She also passed the legislation that enabled Whitmer’s war on local control, taking the authority for large-scale wind and solar projects from community leaders and handing it to the bureaucrats at the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC).

Brinks also oversaw Michigan’s catastrophic drop in 4th-grade reading, and contributed to the literacy crisis firsthand. She helped overturn Michigan’s 3rd-grade retention law and gutted A-F grading. To make matters worse for education, Brinks helped Michigan Democrats cut more than $300 million of school safety and mental health funding, a 92% cut. 

Sadly, Brinks also helped the governor derail the economy. Michigan now has one of the worst unemployment rates in the nation, consistently sitting at the bottom, along with states like California, Oregon, and Washington. The only attempt Brinks made at “economic development” was continued support of corporate handout programs. As a legislator, she voted for more than $9 billion in corporate welfare.

“Jocelyn Benson and Winnie Brinks are perfect for each other, as two examples of Michigan leaders who consistently failed to deliver and ran their respective branches of government into the ground,” said Gabe Butzke, a spokesperson for Michigan Forward Network. “Benson will now have to spend her time defending the constant failures from the Democrat-led Senate, in addition to the tremendous failures of her State Department.”